Show I Yesterdays Yesterday's Children Various explanations are being offered by various experts experts experts ex to explain the rising crime wave among today's American youth Most of the explanations blame parents and society to a large degree and obviously this is true as it always is but that is missing the point I LOOKING BACK and wishing wishing wishing wish wish- ing parents had done a better I job or that society had been different wont won't change or improve improve improve im im- im- im prove anything What must be faced today is the responsibility for checking checking checking check check- ing the crime wave in the interest of the vast majority of law-abiding law despite citizens errors in the past IN THIS COUNTRY in the forties and fifties out far-out theorists theorists theorists theo theo- sold millions of American parents on the idea of never saying no to junior There are in addition a number of youngsters who h have ve been misled by cheap political plays for votes on the part rt of politicians and sensational sensation plays leaders-plays which blame the majority for all of lifes life's evils and inequities WHAT T MUST BE done now now- by the clergy the theorists the idealists the social worker work work- er and the average citizen isto isto is isto to face the fact that crime has hns alarmingly amir indr ista is continuing to ris rise and must mush be stopped We must rein in on monsters our mistakes produced even if it is not all their fault And American parents should learn from the grim present that they have failed as a Nation and seek to do better with the coming generation |